In Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, Hawk claims that white men are bad due to the actions they were capable of, and how these actions affected the Indians. Hawk expresses the way others and himself feel towards the white men and how they did not want the white men in there society.
Although the Indians did not want the white men in their society, the white men stuck around. As said on his speech "we told them to let us alone...but they followed...and they coiled themselves among us like the snake." Hawk uses figurative language here because the white men are not snakes but, white men stayed with the indians really close. He expressed that whites touch was poisnous and they were not safe. Meaning that the white men were hypocrites and
Although the Indians did not want the white men in their society, the white men stuck around. As said on his speech "we told them to let us alone...but they followed...and they coiled themselves among us like the snake." Hawk uses figurative language here because the white men are not snakes but, white men stayed with the indians really close. He expressed that whites touch was poisnous and they were not safe. Meaning that the white men were hypocrites and